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From a cold start, Brazilian science and technology heat up

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Lynn Savage, [email protected]

In a country where basic educational needs have gone unmet for decades, you might not expect a thriving photonics industry. In Brazil, however, light-based efforts are steadily climbing toward prominence. As recently as the beginning of the century – this one, not the 19th or even the 20th – only half of Brazil’s children finished primary school, and 75 percent of adults were functionally illiterate. Children in private schools fared scarcely better than those in public schools, and public support for the value of education barely registered. Brazil’s former...Read full article

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    Published: July 2011
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    photonics
    The technology of generating and harnessing light and other forms of radiant energy whose quantum unit is the photon. The science includes light emission, transmission, deflection, amplification and detection by optical components and instruments, lasers and other light sources, fiber optics, electro-optical instrumentation, related hardware and electronics, and sophisticated systems. The range of applications of photonics extends from energy generation to detection to communications and...
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